A Phonological Description of the Village Dialects of Voličina and Črešnjevci

Abstract

The village dialect of Voličina belongs to the western, while the village dialect of Črešnjevci belongs to the eastern Slovenske Gorice dialect, and, in a broader sense, to the Pannonian dialectal group. The Slovenske Gorice dialect does not possess tonemic oppositions; moreover, the western Slovenske Gorice dialect does not possess quantitative oppositions, since vowels with old acute and neo-acute in non-final as well as final and only syllables were lenghtened and their reflexes therefore differ from the reflexes of the inherited long vowels. The consonantal system of the Slovenske Gorice dialect differs from the literary language only in individual developments.